Published 5 June 2018 Lars Jonung and Fredrik NG Andersson Iceland should abandon the flexible exchange rate of the króna as well as their present policy of inflation targeting – in favour of a currency board with a truly fixed exchange rate of the króna to the euro. The euro should be used as the reserve currency of Iceland. This recommendation is given in a new report, Lessons for Iceland from t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/iceland-case-currency-board-euro-reserve - 2025-01-09

Published 7 June 2018 Tommy Shih The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, STINT, now makes a national, major effort to promote Swedish higher education, research and innovation in China as well as to become an academic knowledge hub in relation to China. Tommy Shih, associate professor at Lund University School of Economics and Management, has been app

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/national-initiative-academic-collaborations-china - 2025-01-09

Published 11 June 2018 Data from more than 400 000 patients in different countries will be used to increase knowledge and improve treatment of prostate cancer. This is all taking place within the international big data for better outcome (BD4BO) project PIONEER, in which Lund University has a prominent role. Despite intensive research, there are many unanswered questions concerning prostate cancer

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prostate-cancer-questions-could-be-answered-through-big-data-project - 2025-01-09

Published 12 June 2018 Diadema africanum (Photo: José Carlos Hernández) Sea urchins lack eyes, but can see with their tentacle-like tube feet instead, previous research has indicated. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have tested their vision in a new study, and shown that while sea urchins have fairly low resolution vision - it is good enough to fulfil their basic needs. “Sea urchins

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sea-urchins-see-their-feet - 2025-01-09

Published 14 June 2018 Bombardier beetle (Photo: Swedish Biomimetics 3000) Researchers at Lund University Sweden working in collaboration with Swedish Biomimetics 3000 have developed a new technique that more efficiently removes harmful oxides of nitrogen, NOx, from the exhaust of diesel engines. The new technology applies a more efficient injector into existing emission control systems currently

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/insect-phenomenon-inspires-new-clean-diesel-technology - 2025-01-09

Published 20 June 2018 Carbonised germinated grains found at Uppåkra, Sweden (Photo: Mikael Larsson) Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonised germinated grains showing that malt was produced for beer brewing as early as the Iron Age in the Nordic region. The findings made in Uppåkra in southern Sweden indicate a large-scale production of beer, possibly for feasting and tra

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/swedes-have-been-brewing-beer-iron-age-new-evidence-confirms - 2025-01-09

Published 20 June 2018 Both Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degrees at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University have been labelled as “success stories” by the European Commission. The Master’s programme in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE) already received this label of quality last summer and the Master’s in Food Innovation and Product Design (FIPDes) recently received the same distinction from

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-joint-masters-programmes-engineering-are-labelled-success-stories - 2025-01-09

Published 21 June 2018 Bogong moth A major international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has proven for the first time that certain nocturnally migrating insects can explore and navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field. Until now, the ability to steer flight using an internal magnetic compass was only known in nocturnally migrating birds. WATCH: The incredible journey of t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-insects-also-migrate-using-earths-magnetic-field - 2025-01-09

Published 25 June 2018 The study provides a clearer idea of how molecules of this type, known as ion transporters, reduce the percentage of cancer stem cells in a cell population. A team of researchers at Lund University in Sweden has developed a fluorescent variant of a molecule that inhibits cancer stem cells. Capturing images of when the molecule enters a cell has enabled the researchers, using

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fluorescent-molecules-reveal-how-cancer-stem-cells-are-selectively-inhibited - 2025-01-09

Published 26 June 2018 Jan and Åsa Söderberg (Photo: Håkan Röjder) A prize worth SEK 1 million for outstanding and groundbreaking research, and a full day dedicated to popular science and interdisciplinary lectures in economics. This is the result of the generous donation from the Jan and Åsa Söderberg family to the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden. “For several years,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-international-prize-lund-university-school-economics-and-management - 2025-01-09

Published 6 July 2018 Barrels used in the experiment (Photo: Gábor Horváth) Susanne Åkesson, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden, refutes the theory that zebras have striped fur to stay cool in the hot sun. That hypothesis is wrong, she and her colleagues show in a study recently published in Scientific Reports. There has been an ongoing discussion among researchers, dating back to Darwin, on

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stripes-may-be-cool-they-dont-cool-zebras-down - 2025-01-09

Published 12 July 2018 Magnus Lindgren, District physician and researcher at the Centre for Primary Healthcare Research, Lund University/Region Skåne Heart failure is known to be more common in certain families but whether this familial transition is caused by genetic or lifestyle factors. By studying adoptees in relation to both their biological parents and adoptive parents, a new population stud

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-highlights-genetic-risk-heart-failure - 2025-01-09

Published 12 July 2018 Rick Kapur, John W. Semple and Johan Rebetz (Photo: Tove Smeds) Knowledge that the gastrointestinal flora affects both healthy physiological processes and various disease mechanisms has increased in recent years. A study conducted at Lund University in Sweden is now published in one of the leading haematology journals, Blood Advances, and reveals a previously unknown link be

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gastrointestinal-flora-culprit-severe-lung-damage-after-blood-transfusion - 2025-01-09

Published 16 July 2018 Martin L Olsson (Photo: Apelöga) Ever since the blood type was discovered in 1962, no one has been able to explain why some people become Xga positive while others are Xga negative. But now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have finally solved the mystery, and their study is being published in the scientific journal Blood. In case of a blood transfusion, it is import

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-crack-code-final-blood-group-system - 2025-01-09

Published 18 July 2018 Arctic climate change research relies on field measurements and samples that are too scarce, and patchy at best, according to a comprehensive review study from Lund University in Sweden. The researchers looked at thousands of scientific studies, and found that around 30% of cited studies were clustered around only two research stations in the vast Arctic region. The Arctic i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/scientists-lack-vital-knowledge-rapid-arctic-climate-change - 2025-01-09

Published 30 July 2018 Great tit (Photo: Johan Nilsson) Biologists at Lund University in Sweden have in a recent study shown that the great tit, a common European songbird, has a tremendous capacity for self-control. Up to now, such impulse control has been primarily associated with larger cognitively advanced animals with far larger brains than the great tit. According to the new results, the gre

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/great-tit-birds-have-much-impulse-control-chimpanzees - 2025-01-09

Av nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - publicerad 1 juli 2020 Bent Sørensen Musikhögskolan är glada över att kunna hälsa Bent Sørensen välkommen till oss som professor i komposition. Bent Sørensen är en dansk kompositör med verk inom olika genrer såsom kammarmusik, orkester, soloverk och opera. Han har arbetat med de flesta av världens ledande musiker, ensembler och

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/ny-professor-i-komposition - 2025-01-09

Av nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - publicerad 24 augusti 2020 Musikhögskolan kommer under de tre kommande åren att delta i ett projekt om maktrelationer inom högre musikutbildning. Projektet organiseras av AEC för att på övergripande nivå, bidra till ökad kunskap och medvetenhet i frågor om maktrelationer. Musikhögskolan i Malmö är en av nio europeiska musikhögsk

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/nytt-projekt-om-makt-inom-hogre-musikutbildning - 2025-01-09

Av nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - publicerad 28 augusti 2020 Detta läsår startar Musikhögskolan upp en nygammal masterutbildning i komposition för film och media. Utbildningen har funnits på Musikhögskolan tidigare, senast 2012, men har sedan dess varit vilande. Den baseras på kreativt skapande och att med musikaliska medel fånga dramatiska och emotionella förlo

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/komposition-film-och-media-tillbaka-pa-schemat - 2025-01-09

Av david [dot] hornwall [at] mhm [dot] lu [dot] se (David Hornwall) - publicerad 17 september 2020 Musikhögskolans Symfoniorkester presenterar stolt Jasmin Gomaa (horn) och Samuli Örnströmer (dirigent) i ett kommande projekt. Höstterminen är äntligen igång och även Musikhögskolans Symfoniorkester som nu efter våren och sommarens uppehåll startar upp det första projektetet för säsongen under lednin

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/sasongens-forsta-orkesterprojekt-ar-igang-efter-uppehall - 2025-01-09